According to ClearMyMail, a British company that specializes in providing antispam solutions, an Orange ISP client named Collin Wells receives 44,001 spam messages per day, thus being the most spammed person in the entire country. ClearMyMail released a top five of the most spammed users and it turns out that three are Orange ISP customers. These people get between a few thousand and a few tens of thousands of spam mail messages every day.

Orange ISP customers ranked in at numbers 1, 2 and 4 in the top five count provided by ClearMyMail. Between the three of them they received 63,339 spam messages per day and 23,118,735 messages per year. The Internet users that came in at number 3 and 5 used 123-reg/GX Networks and receive between 3,900 and 12,000 spam messaged on a daily basis.

How does receiving so much spam affect you? Well, since you have so much of it you probably are already aware that it is spam and know better than to open any of the messages. The best option is to simply delete them, and this is just what Collin Wells did. Except that he had to do it every day and it took him about 2 hours to finish. And when he took some well deserved time off from his job as a Workshop Foreman, the prospect of coming home and finding his inbox full of spam messages terrified him.

Dan Field, Managing Director with ClearMyMail comments: "Email spam and fraud is a growing problem and one that generic filters cannot deal with; by offering ClearMyMail to their customers, ISPs would be able to offer a fully usable and safe email service." Well, Colin at least says it worked for him and he couldn't be happier with the results. Another alternative would be to follow some basic antispam guidelines, such as not to give your email away to every site you encounter.